Lehto's Law

An attorney in New York was accused of using bad AI in his pleadings and was facing sanctions; in response to the motion for sanctions, he filed an opposition motion, filled with even more bad AI. Hallucinations and all. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Feds charged two brothers with stealing $25 million in cryptocurrency, but they say they simply outsmarted some bots and what they did was not illegal. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A Denver meteorologist has been harassed by a stalker and has even gotten a permanent restraining order against him - which she says he has violated. But local prosecutors won't bring the most serious charges against him because of how long it's been since the last stalking event. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A woman who went to the hospital was offered a payment plan but later found out it was a credit card - which was issued to her even though (she says) she never signed for anything. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A Georgia judge was involved in an incident in the parking lot of a Florida strip club where he was arrested for DUI after reportedly hitting a parked vehicle. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Amazon digital picture frames have begun showing ads, as have Samsung refrigerators, whether the owners like them or not - which I believe will become more common in the future. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A sheriff in Kentucky has been arrested a third time for DUI in just the past two years; a lot of people were calling for him to resign, which he has now done. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A used car dealer apparently let a woman whose car failed just 2,000 miles after purchase return it and get another used car - despite the car not being under warranty. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A bakery suddenly closed, leaving customers who had placed orders (with deposits) scrambling to get their orders fulfilled elsewhere; the bakery has said they cannot refund customers due to the rules of bankruptcy court. https://www.lehtoslaw.com.

Delta sometimes requires travelers to check in with the credit card that purchased their ticket - but not always - meaning some travelers face being stranded trying to get home because they did not bring the card with them AND it wasn't required to board the outbound flight. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Plaintiffs say they told the flight crew about the husband's stroke before takeoff but the airline instead chose to takeoff and fly to Spain before the husband could get medical attention; Plaintiffs say the delay caused the husband's injuries to be much greater than they would have been otherwise. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The sisters owned a Dairy Queen and paid their employees every two weeks, but the law in NY required weekly paychecks - a law many people did not know about. Lawsuits by employees exposed the owners to $6 million in liability but they eventually settled for less. The law has also been changed. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A consulting firm charged the Australian government $440K (Aus) for a report which was partially created using AI - and it contained hallucinations. As a result, the firm redid the report and is going to refund some of their fee. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

HOA Fines Limited to $100 by New Law in CA by Lehto's Law

A woman sent a tax payment to the feds but it was not postmarked the day she dropped it off - and it was apparently postmarked AFTER it was due - which could cost her $20,000 even though she mailed it on time. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A retired deputy was arrested for DUI when he had a diabetic episode while driving in TN - he was sober at the time. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A woman was arrested for letting people steal cars from the Hertz lot in Ft. Lauderdale, meaning that Hertz can actually report stolen cars that really were stolen. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Attorneys who got in trouble for filing pleadings containing AI hallucinations had a whole variety of excuses they gave the courts for doing so. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Both Android and Apple have come up with free apps which appear to eliminate most robocalls made to those cellphones. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The state of Ohio has banned ticket quotas for police and the law allows for police to anonymously notify the attorney general if their department is violating the law. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Publishers Clearing House declared bankruptcy recently and stopped payments to some of its previous winners; the company that bought PCH out of bankruptcy says it will continue in business and take steps to protect future winners to make sure they get paid regardless of what happens in the future. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The dealer sold the Coast Guard officer a truck and then reported it stolen, apparently because of a mix up with the VIN - as a result, the man was arrested and has now filed suit against the dealer. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A man from Rhode Island found out his license was suspended for a ticket that he had paid - 30 years ago - in Massachusetts. He paid the fine again but then a TV station helped him get a refund. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A Florida driver was arrested for driving over 100 MPH, which made the infraction a "super speeder" ticket - and the man told the officer that he was driving fast because he was late for a barber appointment. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Police in CA saw a Waymo autonomous car make an illegal u-turn but could not issue a ticket because state law requires traffic infractions to be written to humans; a new law could fix that next year. https://www.lehtoslaw.com